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By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200658
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. Board edges lightly toned. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 330 pp. 8vo. With an enchanting blend of magical realism, politics, and romance reminiscent of her classic bestseller The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende presents a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. Written for her daughter Paula when she became ill and slipped into a coma, Paula is the colorful story of Allende's life--from her early years in her native Chile, through the turbulent military coup... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200656
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 399 pp. 8vo. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquin takes o... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200660
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. 8vo. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile -- a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune. Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora d... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HaperCollinsPublishers: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200717
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.Front bottom right corner of jacket lightly bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 199 pp. Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The large old house on the Calle Cueto, where her mother was born and which her grandfather evoked so frequently that Isabel felt as if she had lived there, became the protagonist of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. It appears again at the beginning of Allende's playful, seductively compelling memoir My Invented Country, and le... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200693
ISBN: 0060778970
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. English text. Near fine.Near Fine. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 390 pp. English text. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well.Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fe... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $10.00
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200770
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Fine.Fine. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 296 pp. Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to write an article about the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, they head -- with Nadia Santos and the magazine's photography crew -- to the blazing, red plains of Kenya. Days into the tour, a Catholic missionary approaches their camp in search of his companions who have mysteriously disappeared. Kate, Alexander, Nadia, and their team, agreeing to aid the rescue, ... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200659
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 382 pp. 8vo. Gregory Reeves, the son of a self-styled preacher, struggles to overcome his childhood of poverty and neglect and to take control of his destiny. By the author of House of the Spirits. View more info
